Identifying Erroneous or Idiosyncratic sentences in a second language.
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The sentence “If I were you, I will choose nasikuning” for giving advice
as marked with red box presented in slide 66 of the Indomaret’s English SOP
material contains a grammatical error. The analysis of the English grammar error using Corder’s model 1981, p.168 is presented below;
The sentence is not superficially well-formed in terms of the grammar of the target language, the error lies on the incorrect rule application of conditional
sentence. According to C order’s model 1981, p.168 this sentence is overtly
idiosyncratic. The next step to analyze the error is to find out if the plausible interpretation can be put on sentence in context.
Plausible interpretation can be put on sentence in context. The sentence
has an incorrect rule application of second conditional sentence and a plausible interpretation can be put on sentence in context. The next step of error analysis
according to Corder’s model 1981, p.168 is to make well formed reconstruction of sentence in target language English.
Well-formed reconstruction of sentence in target language can be performed in the sentence.
The sentence “If I were you, I will choose nasikuning”,
is a second conditional sentence. The correct rule application of conditional sentence is described using this formula:
If + Past Tense would + inf In this case, the error application of the sentence lies on its main clause;
“..., I will choose nasikuning”. Therefore, the well-formed reconstruction of sentence in target language is described as follows:
“If I were you, I would choose nasikuning”. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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The original idiosyncratic sentence compared to the reconstructed sentence is described as follows:
a. Original sentence: “If I were you, I will choose nasikuning”
b. Reconstructed sentence: “If I were you, I would choose nasikuning”
Rules for accounting for original and reconstructed sentence differ in the main clause. The modal “Will” of the main clause in the original sentence uses
V1. Meanwhile, the modal “Will” of the main clause in the reconstructed sentence uses V2, which is the correct rule application of Second Conditional Sentence.
Therefore, this sentence goes to OUT 2.
2 Idiosyncratic Sentence Found in Simple Present Tense
SLIDE 67
Sentence “It contain fried chicken, boiled egg, vegetables, and it very delicious”
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SLIDE 76
Sentence “It come from the management”
In the picture above , it can be seen that there’s an error in the use of verb
in Simple Present Tense in “It contain fried chicken, boiled egg, vegetables”
clause shown in the box and in “It come from the management” sentence.
These sentences are not superficially well-formed in terms of the grammar of the target language. The error of the sentence lies on the missing prefix
–s in the verb of the sentence contain.
According to Corder’s model 1981, p.168 this sentence is overtly idiosyncratic. The next step to analyze the error is to find out if
the plausible interpretation can be put on sentence in context. Plausible interpretation can be put on sentence in context.
This sentence has an incorrect form of verb to the subject of the sentence. The next step of error